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". . . . Instead, commanders find themselves relying on numbers, which is how body counts began to creep into the Iraq war, despite their explicit disavowal by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2003 ("We don't do body counts")."
Wasn't that answer Rumsfeld's response to a question about how many innocent Iraqis had been "liberated" from life by the Bushit criminal enterprise's illegal invasion and occupation of backward non-threatening Iraq?
If so, then in that instance he was sort of telling the truth in a twisted way:
"First, we label every dead Iraqi, men, women, and children -- without ddiscrimination, because we believe in equal treatment, after all -- a 'terrorist,' THEN we count their bodies."
By that same means I think the US managed to kill more Viet Cong than had ever existed.
Rumsfeld clearly learned from Vietnam. Problem is he learned only the wrong lessons.
